Hi all,<br><br>The serial port in the XO is designed for low level debugging,<br><br>please see <br><br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Serial_adapters">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Serial_adapters</a>.<br><br>Cheers!<br><div>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 10/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Daniher</b> <<a href="mailto:it.daniher@gmail.com">it.daniher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Samir,<br>IIRC, there *is* a serial port, but due to constraints I have not been made aware of, It isn't exposed, instead it is buried inside the case.<br>Sorry I can't help more,<br>-- <br>Ian Daniher<br><a href="mailto:it.daniher@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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On 10/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Samir Saidani</b> <<a href="mailto:saidani@squeakfr.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
saidani@squeakfr.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br><br>I have heard about the OLPC initiative a while ago, and recently
<br>I have decided to take a further look at this very interesting<br>initiative... Here are first thoughts about it...<br><br>I'm quite new to this project, and one thing that strikes me was the<br>lack of built-in serial and parallel port. Why ? When you don't have
<br>a lot of money, you tend to use obsolete technology which are cheaper<br>than the newer one, like parallel printers, serial modem, serial mouse,<br>parallel scanner, etc ... This obsolete technology are easily available
<br>on poor countries, because it's easy for an non profit organization<br>to send this kind of technology that almost nobody wants anymore (at<br>least the enterprises, and the schools of rich countries update quite
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often their hardware and throw the old one to the garbage or donate it<br>to a NPO).<br><br>So you can have the old tech for free, because they often end into the<br>gargage while they are still working great. And this is not a theory,
<br>we have founded here in France a npo which locally is working to give<br>One Computer Per Child for 0 $. We have already a lot of computers,<br>and we are slowing down the process to avoid a computer hardware<br>overload... Recycling is an ecologic approach to the environment, and it
<br>seems that it is a concern of the whole OLPC initiative. Recycling allows<br>you to do things by yourself with little money (or none at all). I know<br>that there is a serial/USB interface, but I'm not sure that it would be
<br>as easy to use as built-in ports (possibility to lost it, unable to do it<br>by yourself due to the complex USB electronics component...). So when you<br>consider the target audience (poor countries, rural zone, poor people),
<br>I think this is a design mistake. Or at least it's reducing a lot the<br>possibility of hacking and recycling obsolete hardware lying around.<br><br>Maybe and probably do you have already talk about this matter ?
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